Nicole Avant, film producer, activist and former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, was at Taormina Film Festival on Friday to receive an award for the film “The Triple Six Eight,” which tells the true ...

Anna Mae Robertson, one of the last known surviving members of the famed 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, died May 30. She was 101. Robertson, and all the 855 members of the “Six Triple ...

Anna Mae Robertson, one of the last surviving members of the famed Six Triple Eight unit, has died. She was 101. Robertson was among the 855 women in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the ...

As Women’s History Month nears its end, New Jersey lawmakers have introduced legislation to recognize the African American women who served in the Women’s Army Corps’ 6888th Central Postal Directory ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville church took time Sunday morning to honor a woman who made history—one that was only recently discovered. RELATED: Black History: A new Netflix movie tells the story ...

PHOENIX (KNXV) – Snow, rain and heat can’t stop the mail. Neither can war. That’s something that Maj. Fannie Griffin-McClendon knows personally, as even World War II couldn’t keep her from her duty.

My book [“Think You’ll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace and Gratitude”] came out six months before his. I had never met anybody who wrote about childhood like this. It mirrored my ...